MONILIA ANTENNATA.
Black crowded Monilia.
C l a s s a n d O k d e k CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn N a t . O r d . BYSSOIDEJE,
Grev.
G EN E R IC CHARAC TER .
Flocci opaci, arliculati, erecti, liheri, articuUs contiguis,
Flocci opake, jointed, erect, free, the joints contiguous (not interrupted).
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Monilia antennata; jtoccis simplicibus, densissime aggregatis, mmiliformibus,
articulis ovalibus.
M. flocci simple, very densely crowded, moniliform, the joints oval.
Monilia an ten n ata , Pers. Syn. Fung. p . 69i .—Alb. et Schwein. p. 365.—
Schwein. Fung. Carol No. \S22.—Nees, Syst. Myc. t. 5. f. 61.—Mart. F l
Crypt. F r l p . 356.—Brong. Class, nat. Champ, t. 2. f. 5.
T orula antennata, Pers. Myc. Furop. 1. p. 21.
D ematium antennteforme, Hoffm. FL Germ. 2. t. 13. f. 4.
H ab. On wood, and the trunks of dead tre e s ; not unfrequent in autumn.
I have received fine specimens from Captain C a rm ic h a e l, who finds it
a t Appin.
Plant spreading in dense black patches, an inch or more in breadth. Filaments
erect, very crowded, not h a lf a line in height, simple, opake, rigid,
jointed, t\\e joints oval or elliptical, resembling the beads of a necklace,
containing in the centre of each an obscure granulated mass (Spo-
I t is rather singular that it should fall to my lot to record
Monilia antennata as a British plant, common as it certainly
is in every part of the country.
Monilia is placed by F r i e s in his Systema Orbis Vegeta-
bilis among his Byssaceoe, a large group or family situated,
according to him, between the Lichens and the Algæ, and perhaps
correctly. He regards the Byssaceoe as aerial Algæ :
“ Algæ aëreæ, perennantes, continuo vigentes, contextu filamentoso,
fibris farctis (liberis aut pluribiis conglutinatis, corticc
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